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MP Manon Perreault found guilty of public mischief
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| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jan 18, 2016 07:24pm |
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| Author | Laura Payton |
| Media | Website - CBC |
| News Date | Saturday, March 21, 2015 01:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Former New Democrat MP Manon Perreault, who has been sitting as an Independent, has been found guilty of public mischief for reporting a theft that never happened.
Judge Bruno Leclerc in Quebec court in Joliette found that Perreault told police some items had been stolen from her office when she knew that a former employee had them and had offered to return them.
Perreault never told police that the former employee had the items.
A staffer went to retrieve the items, but the former employee needed Perreault to sign off on some expense claims and didn't want to involve the other staffer, the judge found. The former employee would also return the items only if she was provided a receipt confirming their return.
Perreault said she called the police to get a case number to provide to explain the missing office inventory and didn't know it would entail an investigation.
The judge also found that Perreault's testimony didn't raise any reasonable doubt about the allegations against her.
The case was heard Dec. 19 but the decision rendered Friday. |
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